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Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records program 2008–09

The Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records program (MILR) provides funding and support aimed at addressing the steady erosion and loss of ’s Indigenous languages. These are estimated to have originally numbered some 250. Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records program 2008–09 Many of the projects that the program supports record and document the last remaining speakers, so that a language can be retained and passed on to future generations. The Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records program (MILR) provides fundingTo aid theand maintenance support aimed and revival at addressing of these languages, the steady the program erosion funds and community- loss of Australia’s Indigenousbased projects languages. among language These groups,are estimated supports researchto have intooriginally language, numbered and aids thesome 250. development and coordination of language resources. Many of the projects that the program supports record and document the last remainingThe work beingspeakers, done includes so that language a language centre s,can projects be retained that ensure and language passed is on to future generations.transmitted from generation to generation, production of language materials and resources, language recordings, development of databases, and coordination between language Toorganisations. aid the maintenance and revival of these languages, the program funds community based projects among language groups, supports research into language, and aids theSome development of the projects and are coordination key national pilot of languageprograms to resources. build on emerging trends and develop and test new language initiatives. The work being done includes language centres, projects that ensure language is transmittedDemand for fromMILR funding generation is very tocompetitiv generation,e: in the production 2008-09 funding of languageround 104 applications materials and resources,sought more language than $18 million recordings, in funding, development and 66 projects were of databases, supported with and $8.8 million. coordination The projects that are funded have been assessed in accordance with the MILR program betweenguidelines. language organisations. Some of the projects are key national pilot programs to build on emerging trends and MILR’s contribution to the maintenance of Indigenous languages is helping build a strong developand sustainable and test Indigenous new language languages initiatives. environment in Australia. Demand for MILR funding is very competitive: in the 2008–09 funding round 104 applications sought more than $18 million in funding, and 66 projects were supported with $8.8 million. The projects that are funded have been assessed in accordance with the MILR program guidelines. MILR’s contribution to the maintenance of Indigenous languages is helping build a strong and sustainable Indigenous languages environment in Australia.

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Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records – Funding 2008–09 Projects approved for funding for 2008–09 by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts as part of the whole of government Indigenous funding round.

New South Wales

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

ARMIDALE Trustees of the Roman Catholic Deliver the Language $89,929 Church of the Diocese of program to young people at St Armidale Joseph’s primary and community members in Walgett.

Boggabilla Boggabilla Central School Re-establish a $40,600 Language Program in the Boggabilla Central School.

Bourke Muda Aboriginal Corporation Teach the Wangkumarra language $139,562 and develop language resource materials at the Muda Language Centre.

Bourke Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Teach the Yuwaalaraay/ $22,716 Corporation Murrawarri languages to students and community members in Goodooga.

CANBERRA Australian Institute of Aboriginal Continue with the online Language $234,300 and Torres Strait Islander Studies Community Access Pilot project (AIATSIS) by trialling the use of the Internet to exchange audiovisual documentation of Indigenous languages and cultures between AIATSIS and language speakers and descendants.

CANBERRA Rudder, John Develop a comprehensive $95,000 grammar of the language.

FORBES Yoorana Gunya Family Violence Teach Wiradjuri language and $92,365 Healing Centre Aboriginal produce language resources for Corporation school students and community members at Forbes.

GRIFFITH Griffith Wiradjuri Aboriginal Increase the use of Wiradjuri $27,779 Preschool in preschool children and their families and community in the Griffith region.

LIGHTNING Barriekneal Housing and Provide support for teaching $39,000 RIDGE Community Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay for all K-6 students at Lightning Ridge Central School.

Moruya Cobowra Local Aboriginal Land Support the $35,100 Council program in the Eurobodalla Shire area.

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New South Wales

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

NAMBUCCA Muurrbay Aboriginal Language Operate a regional language centre $249,810 HEADS and Culture Co-operative that facilitates language revival supporting students, language workers and community members in the Many Rivers Region.

NAMBUCCA Muurrbay Aboriginal Language Revitalise, reclaim and maintain $230,630 HEADS and Culture Co-operative the Aboriginal languages with schools and community groups on the mid north coast and interior of NSW.

Newcastle Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Develop innovative IT $344,960 Association resources, language materials for organisations and skills of language workers nationally and locally.

ORANGE Orange Aboriginal Land Council Support the community to revive, $35,000 relearn and maintain the local Wiradjuri language in Orange.

SYDNEY Biambul Indigenous Language Maintain core services and $93,949 Business Institute operational requirements of the language centre for Indigenous and non Indigenous people in the greater Sydney area.

SYDNEY Biambul Indigenous Language Develop and produce programs $15,100 Business Institute for airing on Radio on NSW Indigenous Languages for listeners of Greater Sydney.

WALGETT Dharriwaa Elders Group Increase the use of the $96,000 Yuwaalaraay/ Gamilaraay languages in the Walgett community.

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Northern Territory

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

ALICE SPRINGS Institute for Aboriginal Support IAD Press’s publishing $103,899 Development contribution to the restoration and maintenance of and promotion and advocacy for Indigenous languages in Australia.

ALICE SPRINGS Institute for Aboriginal Record the languages and produce $127,682 Development documents/ resources that can assist in maintaining Indigenous languages in the region covering Docker River, Areyonga, Mutitjulu, Willora, Neutral Junction, Haast’s Bluff, Ntaria, Utopia, Imanpa, Ltyentye Apurte, Arltarlpilta and Titkikala.

BATCHELOR Batchelor Institute of Develop teaching resources $212,246 Indigenous Tertiary Education for language preservation and maintenance by the Wadeye community, targeting Marri Amu, Merri Tjevin, Magati Ke, , and Murrinh Patha languages.

BORROLOOLA Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Record and document the $147,175 Centre Garrawar, Yanyula, Mara and Gurdanji languages of the Borroloola region.

DARWIN East Arnhem Shire Council Provide a digital cultural $50,000 archive service and multi-media production centre at Yirrkala, Arnhem Land.

DARWIN Library Support the maintenance of $69,720 the Warlpiri and Tiwi Language through the development of appropriate bilingual early literacy resources.

Darwin West Arnhem Shire Council Record, document, transcribe, $157,450 translate and archive and develop publications in the Iwaidja language.

Darwin West Arnhem Shire Council Record, document, transcribe, $50,851 translate and archive the Kunwinjku language.

Katherine Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Support the operations of the $292,900 Corporation Katherine Regional Aboriginal Language Centre to facilitate language maintenance, revitalisation and documenting of activities.

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Northern Territory

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

Katherine Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Document and preserve the $242,000 Corporation endangered languages of the Katherine region including the Mara endangered language.

Katherine Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Conduct a feasibility study in the $13,500 Corporation Victoria River District to scope the potential for language maintenance and revitalisation activities in the Kalkarindji, Daguragu, Yarralin, Pigeon Hole and Timber Creek region.

Nhulunbuy Yothu Yindi Foundation Encourage the practice, $60,000 preservation and maintenance of Matha, which incorporates over forty languages spoken by people of Arnhem Land and to share this at the Key Forum at the Garma Festival of Traditional Culture.

TENNANT CREEK Papulu Apparr-Kari Aboriginal Provide operational funding for $310,030 Corporation maintenance of languages within the Barkly region.

Winnellie Aboriginal Resource and Record and preserve the $67,925 Development Services endangered Dhangu/ Djangu language including the dialects of Galpu, Wangurri, Warramirri and clan languages of Golumala, Datiwuy, Ngaymil and Rirratjingu.

Winnellie Aboriginal Resource and Revitalise and preserve the $70,000 Development Services critically endangered language of Gurrangay Matha, which is the academic/ technical language of the Yolngu clan groups of North East Arnhem Land.

Winnellie Aboriginal Resource and Document and further develop an $33,000 Development Services English to Yolngu Matha () language electronic dictionary.

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Queensland

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

BEENLEIGH Kombumerri Aboriginal Document and record Indigenous $122,500 Corporation for Culture languages through community language teams in Mitchell, Cunnamulla, Dirranbandi and Yugambeh.

BUNDABERG Gidarjil Development Establish a Regional Indigenous $100,000 Corporation Languages Centre to coordinate the revival and maintenance of endangered Aboriginal Languages in the Central Queensland region.

CAIRNS North Queensland Regional Maintain and record community $270,500 Aboriginal Corporation language groups, in the region Languages Centre from Mossman in the north, south to Sarina and west to Richmond.

Cape York Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire Promote and maintain the $32,400 Council Mungkan and Thayorre languages of Pompuraaw and surrounding outstations.

HERVEY BAY Korrawinga Aboriginal Coordinate the revival and $110,000 Corporation maintenance of the Butchulla Language for students and adults in the Hervey Bay and Fraser Coast areas of Central Queensland.

Mornington Woomera Aboriginal Teach and ensure intergenerational $53,500 Island Corporation transmission of the Lardil and Kaiadilt languages on Mornington Island.

ROCKHAMPTON Saima Torres Strait Islander Facilitate and revive Kala Lagua $41,176 Corporation Ya, Meriam Mir, Kala Kawaw Ya, Kriol and Kulkagal dialects through language workshops and classes.

South Library Board of Queensland Support community language $166,000 Brisbane projects and workers through training, resource development and coordination of networking between stakeholders to provide strategic planning for Queensland languages.

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South Australia

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

ADELAIDE Adelaide Research and Produce bilingual publications, $73,170 Innovation through working with elders and translated recordings, to assist the maintenance of the Nyangumarta language of the Pilbara region of .

CEDUNA Tjutjunaku Worka Tjuta Facilitate community based $44,000 activities that focus on the teaching and learning of Indigenous languages pertinent to the West Coast region.

Maitland Narungga Aboriginal Facilitate community based $93,380 Progress Association activities that focus on the teaching and learning of the Narungga language of the Yorke Peninsula region.

Murray Bridge Department of Employment Write and pilot a TAFE-accredited $87,200 Training and Further course which trains Indigenous Education adults to teach their language to others in family, community and school situations.

PORT Augusta Umeewarra Aboriginal Media Promote awareness and use of $27,500 Association twenty key Aboriginal languages of northern SA through weekly radio broadcasts in language prepared with community speakers.

Yalata Yalata Community Increase the use and importance $30,603 Incorporated of in Yalata community by providing a structured language course and training in Pitjantjatjara literacy.

Victoria

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

MELBOURNE Federation of Aboriginal Provide support for Indigenous $361,899 and Torres Strait Islander languages nationally to facilitate Languages the revival and maintenance of Indigenous languages in Australia.

MELBOURNE Victorian Aboriginal Conduct state wide and $532,840 Corporation for Languages community-based Indigenous language programs in Victoria which retrieve, document and revive Victorian Indigenous languages.

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Western Australia

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

Batchelor Batchelor Institute of Support the language $299,000 Indigenous Tertiary Education revival and retrieval in the region by collecting, collating and publishing Noongar language resources.

Broome Madjulla Incorporated Continue support for the Nyikina $50,750 language in the Derby region.

Geraldton Bundiyarra Aboriginal Provide a regional language $253,445 Community Aboriginal service to assist the revitalisation, Corporation renewal and maintenance of Indigenous languages in the Midwest, Murchison and Gascoyne regions.

Geraldton Bundiyarra Aboriginal A project specialising in the $125,665 Community Aboriginal endangered languages of Corporation the Midwest, Murchison and Gascoyne regions.

Halls Creek Kimberley Language Maintain an Indigenous Language $440,358 Resource Centre Program in the Kimberley Region in Halls Creek.

Halls Creek Kimberley Language A project in the Halls Creek $70,000 Resource Centre community that supports intergenerational transfer of ethnobiological knowledge in language.

Kununurra Mirima Council Aboriginal Deliver language maintenance $186,373 Corporation services to Miriwoong and people across the Kununurra region in the East Kimberley.

Kununurra Mirima Council Aboriginal Further develop the Miriwoong $40,508 Corporation dictionary through community involvement of Miriwoong speaking people from the East Kimberley region.

Newman Western Desert Lands Support the Martu language revival $66,800 Aboriginal Corporation and retrieval in the region by collecting, collating and publishing Martu language resources.

Roebourne Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Document and record the $70,000 Corporation Yindibarndi language, and generate materials for teaching the language to Yindibarndi people in the Pilbara.

South Port Wangka Maya Pilbara Record and archive the Kurama, $197,740 Hedland Aboriginal Language Centre Tharrkari and languages of the Pilbara region.

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Western Australia

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

South Port Wangka Maya Pilbara Conduct a state conference for $45,000 Hedland Aboriginal Language Centre Indigenous Language Centres throughout Western Australia to facilitate sharing of knowledge and best practices.

South Port Wangka Maya Pilbara Support the operations of an $286,559 Hedland Aboriginal Language Centre Aboriginal Language Centre at South Hedland for the benefit of Indigenous people in the Pilbara region.

South Port Wangka Maya Pilbara Provide language services to the $147,500 Hedland Aboriginal Language Centre people of Nullagine, Punmu and Parngurr Aboriginal communities in the Western Desert region.

South Port Wangka Maya Pilbara Record and revitalise the $15,000 Hedland Aboriginal Language Centre language of the Pilbara region, through the production of a series of short films.

South Port Wangka Maya Pilbara Preserve the Aboriginal languages $144,456 Hedland Aboriginal Language Centre of the Goldfields, Central and Western Desert regions.

Tasmania

Location Organisation Project Description Funding

HOBART Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Revive, record, maintain and $290,000 promote Tasmanian Aboriginal languages, in particular Palawa Kani.

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